“Ignoring the Possibility of Progress Is a Sure Method of Destroying Ourselves”
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"Deutsch: All usefulness, every prediction, comes from understanding. However, if you no longer strive for fundamental explanations, but believe that it is sufficient to generate something useful, then you will merely move incrementally from one decimal place to the next, and even then, only in areas that are already well studied. This tendency has dramatically slowed down progress. "